Generalized Kohonen's competitive learning algorithms for ophthalmological MR image segmentation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 863-870

  Lin, Karen Chia Ren ^a   Yang, Miin Shen ^b   Liu, Hsiu Chih ^c   Lirng, Jiing Feng ^c   Wang, Pei Ning ^c  

^a NANYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy soft method; Image segmentation; Kohonen's competitive learning network; Magnetic resonance image (MRI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKULL FRACTURE;

EID: 0242580217     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(03)00185-1     Document Type: Article

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